The Crow That Would Not Go, which is PAMIS ‘Creating Together’ project – a story developed by the PAMIS Story Squad and inspired by the work of the PAMIS online Art Group, led by David Grigor.  

 

Funded by Shared Care Scotland and Clackmannanshire Council.

 

The Story Squad used one of the Art Group projects – Autumn on the Farmyard – as our inspiration. 
 

The Crow That Would Not Go tells the story of a group of scarecrows on a farm who are horrified one day when a crow swooped down and started pecking at the seeds, as he refuses to be scared off by them. 

 

Each scarecrow has their own ideas of what will scare away the naughty crow – to allow for choice making and offer the children opportunities to express themselves, we provided the children with a large selection of stimuli with a range of sounds, colours and textures and let them decide their favourite. 

 

For those unable to attend the Friendship Club session, we recorded a video introducing the story and sharing the stimuli.  The teachers at Lochies School shared the video with pupils and worked with them to identify their favourites.

 

As part of our Friendship Club session, children created their own scarecrows using a wide variety of materials, all with varying colours and textures.

 

We then passed this information to David, who personally created illustrations based on the scarecrow designs.  Where we didn’t have a scarecrow design, David used childrens’ features to personalise their scarecrow as much as possible.

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These illustrations were then used to create a book and a film of the multi-sensory story.​

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